I lay perfectly still under the warm blankets.

I watched the empty doorway for a long time, listening to the squeak of their shoes fade away down the hall.

The corridor went silent.

The digital clock on the wall flipped to eight-oh-one.

They hadn’t stayed a single minute past the rules.

Dr.

Grant clicked his pen twice before he stepped all the way into the room the next morning.

I sat up and pulled the thin hospital blanket over my chest.